Analysis of Have you got a Brook in your little heart

Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)



Have you got a Brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so—

And nobody knows, so still it flows,
That any brook is there,
And yet your little draught of life
Is daily drunken there—

Why, look out for the little brook in March,
When the rivers overflow,
And the snows come hurrying from the fills,
And the bridges often go—

And later, in August it may be—
When the meadows parching lie,
Beware, lest this little brook of life,
Some burning noon go dry!


Scheme XAXA XBCB XAXA XDCD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1110101101 110101 01011111 01101 0111111 110111 01110111 110101 1111010101 101010 0011100101 0010101 010010111 10111 011110111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 524
Words 99
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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